Audacity Forum

I recorded four sets of a band in a live performance using Audacity and two mics through a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 and a Dell Latitude notebook. The first two sets recorded well and were each exported as a wav file which also imported and played well. The third set recorded, but on playback the file ...

I recorded a night of club music with Audacity on a notebook computer, saved it as a WAV file and imported it onto my desk computer. When I open the file there are red peak lines everywhere, while there were none on the original. Why would there be a difference?

Oldbear

In my first recording session with Audacity I noticed that my system blacks out after 15 minutes with no user input. I then set my screen saver and system shut-downs to "never", but still saw a black screen after 15 minutes. When I opened my system back up it seems that I didn't lose any data and ev...

Keeping the number of running programs down is simple enough.

Is this a common problem? Since I have heard this a couple of times in this system I am assuming it crops up occasionally.

Oldbear

I recorded a night at a club using a Scarlett 2i2, 2 small shotgun mics and audacity on a 32 bit Windows 7 notebook. My first set was saved as an Audacity file, but when I try to listen it is garbled, you can recognize the song, but it has pops, runs too fast and sounds cut up. Other sets recorded a...

I should stick to "back-up" for this data.

Oldbear

I have recently started recording a band my father plays in regularly and I am now up to 28 GB of data. Saving just one set of music takes up one CD (and I get 4 sets per night). How much will I lose if I record at 16 or 24 bits or at a lower sample rate? Is there a simpler or better way to archive ...

Very green newbie questions: I am trying to record a band in a live nightclub environment using Audacity and a USB interface (Scarlett 2i2). I have recorded this group using hand-held digital recorders (Zoom H2 & TASCAM DR5) that save to WAV files, but now need better microphones to eliminate club c...

So, Audacity doesn't use the original source file, it processes and reprocesses the "working file" every time an action is done. So a good workflow be to import the raw file (mine are usually performance sets with 8 to 10 songs), pull out a segment (song) to process as a separate project, run effect...

OK, so now I expose my nubeity - how or what is 32 bit floating?

OB